Joyce, Blog 1
Joyce Choi
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6/4/18
This week has been challenging but very rewarding and has made me expectant of more
new experiences to come in the next following weeks. The first two days were great, getting to know my fellow interns and feeling relief because we’re all getting along very well. Our first seminar with Jessie was surprising because we were all very vulnerable, open, and passionate about telling our stories. It was interesting to listen to everyone’s journeys in life and walks with Christ and realize how we’re all so alike yet very unique at the same time. I think I can say that that was my favorite time of the week, sharing those stories where we went deeper and each of us listening with avid attention. It was like a boundary we all met together and overcame which made us a lot more comfortable around each other. I especially appreciated those notecards we wrote in to write about what we felt or what popped out in the stories because reading them later and looking at what the others saw in me and my story was heartwarming.
Day three was when we all went off to our placement sites, mine being at the NAACP. I, along with two other interns, got to have a meeting to get to know the director of the NAACP Washington Branch, Mr. Shelton, who’s an awesome person willing to share all the knowledge and stories he has. Conversations with him just goes on forever and forever but in the good way, not a boring way. I discovered that he’s a part of the UMC as well and has given seminars for the EYA program in the past. I’m really looking forward with working with him and learning from him. The interns here all have to do a research project, and I chose to do mine about death penalty abolition which I’m both nervous but mainly excited about. All in all, this week has been very busy, very fun, and very exciting. I’m curious as to what the rest will look like!
Blog 1
6/4/18
This week has been challenging but very rewarding and has made me expectant of more
new experiences to come in the next following weeks. The first two days were great, getting to know my fellow interns and feeling relief because we’re all getting along very well. Our first seminar with Jessie was surprising because we were all very vulnerable, open, and passionate about telling our stories. It was interesting to listen to everyone’s journeys in life and walks with Christ and realize how we’re all so alike yet very unique at the same time. I think I can say that that was my favorite time of the week, sharing those stories where we went deeper and each of us listening with avid attention. It was like a boundary we all met together and overcame which made us a lot more comfortable around each other. I especially appreciated those notecards we wrote in to write about what we felt or what popped out in the stories because reading them later and looking at what the others saw in me and my story was heartwarming.
Day three was when we all went off to our placement sites, mine being at the NAACP. I, along with two other interns, got to have a meeting to get to know the director of the NAACP Washington Branch, Mr. Shelton, who’s an awesome person willing to share all the knowledge and stories he has. Conversations with him just goes on forever and forever but in the good way, not a boring way. I discovered that he’s a part of the UMC as well and has given seminars for the EYA program in the past. I’m really looking forward with working with him and learning from him. The interns here all have to do a research project, and I chose to do mine about death penalty abolition which I’m both nervous but mainly excited about. All in all, this week has been very busy, very fun, and very exciting. I’m curious as to what the rest will look like!
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